in asian markets where smartphone sales are booming, but apple's share is not. in addition to its south korea rival samsung, apple faces tough competition from chinese players such as wowway, appo, vivo, and showme. the company is investing heavily in its media business growing itunes and icloud and building a production studio from scratch. the tech giant has plans to produce original content. at today's event we could see hardware on the apple watch, possibly an update on wireless headphones. people love to watch the event -- >> i think brian stelzer is attending his first apple event. >> is he? >> 10:00 a.m. eastern time. >> that's right. ahead, the archbishop of washington telling his diocese he'll speak to the pope about resigning. it's over demands he step down over his handling of clergy sex abuse. that's next. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for